The Week in Pictures

Demonstrators in Peshawar, Pakistan, burn tires during a protest against Israel after its military moved against a relief aid fleet on its way to the Gaza Strip. Pakistan condemned the commando attack, calling the killings of nine to 16 people “brutal and inhuman.”  (A Majeed / AFP/Getty Images)

A Memorial Day event breaks up during a thunderstorm at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Ellwood, Ill. President Obama was scheduled to give an address, but instead urged spectators to return to their cars for safety.  (Charles Rex Arbogast / Associated Press)

Julietta Corti, left, and Diana Venora cheer a flyover of the Condor Squad during the Memorial Day program at Los Angeles National Cemetery. Venora has five uncles who served in three branches of the military and a grandfather who served in World War II. Corti has a brother in the Air Force Reserve in Iraq.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Vacation turnout on the beach at Gulf Shores, Ala., was good over the holiday weekend. BP pledged $70 million to help gulf states promote tourism.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama walks to the Oval Office after his return from Elwood, Ill.  (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images)

English driver Mike Conway is airborne after colliding with Ryan Hunter-Reay (37) in the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. Conway then struck the catch fence at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He suffered a broken left leg.  (Mark Miller / Associated Press)

Mike Conway’s car is out of control after a crash Sunday on lap 199 of the Indianapolis 500. The 26-year-old Briton was airlifted to the hospital with a leg fracture. Dario Franchitti won the race.  (Kurt Bauer / Associated Press)

Jolie Van Gilder, left, holds her mother’s hand during a rally against BP and the gulf oil spill.  (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)

A Philippine soldier blows his bugle along the halls displaying engraved names of soldiers killed during World War II at the commemoration of Memorial Day at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Ft. Bonifacio, Manila.  (Noel Celis / AFP / Getty Images)

A border collie competes in a European Disk Dog event in Mogyorod, Hungary.  (Bela Szandelszky / Associated Press)

A man walks on the Chinese side of the riverbank near the Friendship Bridge to North Korea in Dandong.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Four knights ride on an enormous horse float during the Ros Beiaard parade in Dendermonde, Belgium.  (Yves Logghe / Associated Press)

Home plate umpire Tony Maners watches as Ms. Babe Ruth removes a bat after a North Carolina State player hit against Georgia Tech during the Atlantic Coast Conference NCAA baseball tournament.  (Jim R. Bounds / Associated Press)

Bulls wing Francois Hougaard scores a try against the Stormers during the Super 14 final rugby match at Soweto’s Orlando stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.  (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP / Getty Images)

Jimmie Johnson drives the #48 Lowe’s Memorial Day Tribute Chevrolet during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.  (Streeter Lecka / Getty Images)

Seung Min Ryu of Korea serves to Timo Boll of Germany during the men’s semifinal at the 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships.  (Yuri Kadobnov / AFP / Getty Images)

Participants walk with a giant American flag during the Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade on Saturday, May 29, 2010.  (Jeff Roberson / AP)

The new Luna Park amusement area at Coney Island, New York City, draws a crowd as Memorial Day weekend begins. Luna Park opens on the site of the former Astroland amusement park as part of a Coney Island revitalization plan.  (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Singer Ke$ha poses on the red carpet during the MTV World Stage Video Music Awards Japan 2010 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo.  (Koichi Kamoshida / Getty Images)

Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano spews lava. The volcano, in the central Andes mountains, started erupting May 28, forcing the evacuation of at least seven villages and closing the airport and public schools in Guayaquil, the country’s largest and most populated city.  (Rodrigo Buendia / AFP/Getty Images)

Minnesota Twins second baseman Orlando Hudson makes a leaping throw to get Texas Rangers’ Michael Young at first base in the first inning. The Twins won, 2-1.  (Paul Battaglia / Associated Press)

Visitors walk by U.S. artist Teddy Crin’s “Cultural Traffic” in the Maxxi, Italy’s new national museum of contemporary art, during a preview day. The Maxxi will open its doors to the public on May 30.  (Alberto Pizzoli / AFP/Getty Images)

Buddhist monks participate in a special prayer to commemorate the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. The holiday falls on the first full-moon day in May.  (Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP/Getty Images)

Chinese artist Li Wei performs outside a shop. His current exhibition, “Beyond Gravity,” deals with the desire for material goods and power.  (Mike Clarke / AFP/Getty Images)

Pakistani police use water cannons to disperse teachers protesting low wages and poor treatment in the southern port city. At least 15 teachers were injured and dozens arrested during a clash between demonstrators and police.  (Asif Hassan / AFP/Getty Images)

Ministers and other top officials pose on the stairs of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development headquarters before the start of a meeting. Israel, Slovenia and Estonia were invited to join the organization.  (Eric Piermont / AFP/Getty Images)

Residents peer out of their sandbagged residence. Torrential rain in Poland has caused rivers to swell, prompting flood warnings in neighboring Germany.  (Michael Urban / AFP/Getty Images)

A message board bearing comments on the political situation in Thailand catches the attention of a passerby at a shopping mall in the capital.  (Bay Isomoyo / AFP/Getty Images)

Japan’s Kaii Yoshida returns to Austrian Werner Schlager during their match at the 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow.  (Alexander Nemenov / AFP/Getty Images)

A girl poses with a pair of butterflies at Kew Gardens, where displays illustrate the relationship between flowering plants and their pollinators.  (Carl De Souza / AFP/Getty Images)

A protester reacts during speeches denouncing North Korea in Seoul. North Korea announced Thursday that it would scrap an accord aimed at preventing accidental naval clashes with South Korea in retaliation for Seoul blaming Pyongyang for a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship.  (Wally Santana / Associated Press)

Coadjutor Archbishop Jose Gomez, left, is greeted by Cardinal Roger Mahony during the welcoming Mass for Gomez at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels downtown. Gomez will work with Mahony and then succeed him as head of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles early next year.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A black bear that climbed up a tree falls toward a tarp after being tranquilized.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Detroit Tigers left fielder Brennan Boesch makes the acquaintance of a fan Wednesday when he ends up in the stands after catching a foul ball hit by the Seattle Mariners’ Ichiro Suzuki. Seattle prevailed, 5-4.  (Ted S. Warren / Associated Press)

A Pakistani youth cools off near a leaking water pipe in Islamabad, where it was about 110 degrees Wednesday.  (Anjum Naveed / Associated Press)

Julia Gnuse, the world’s most tattooed woman according to Guinness World Records, shows off some of her tattoos in New York.  (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)

Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics psychs himself up for Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday. But the Celtics fell, 113-92, and take a 3-2 series lead back to Boston for Game 6 on Friday.  (Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images)

A child carries a message during a protest by parents against planned cuts in child-care benefits. Trade unions are threatening a general strike next week following a government decision to cut state-sector salaries, pensions and other benefits to meet an International Monetary Fund-set budget deficit target.  (Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press)

Protesters scuffle with police officers as the demonstrators try to burn a North Korean flag during a anti-North Korea rally.  (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)

Palestinian members of the Hamas police force patrol the beach during a display of their preparations for the arrival of the small flotilla carrying donated supplies that organizers say will arrive early next week at the port in Gaza City.  (Khalil Hamra / Associated Press)

A boy drinks water from a roadside water pump in a poor neighborhood. Temperatures reached 96 degrees in Islamabad.  (Vincent Thian / Associated Press)

An animal rescue worker cleans a pelican drenched in oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. The pelican, rescued in Barataria Bay on Monday, will eventually be released back into the wild.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Tourists enjoy a sunset boat ride on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state.  (Dar Yasin / Associated Press)

Russian school graduates gather in the capital’s Red Square to celebrate the last day of class.  (Misha Japaridze / Associated Press)

Britain‘s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip walk through the Royal Gallery in the Palace of Westminster before the state opening of Parliament. The queen unveiled the new coalition government’s legislative program in a speech to Parliament and peers in The House of Lords. Laws expected to be introduced in the coming parliamentary year include new voting reforms, repeal of identity card legislation and new powers for parents to start their own schools.  (Luke Macgregor / Getty Images)

Leni Zeika, 10, walks on trash as she collects recyclable plastic items at a garbage dump.  (Binsar Bakkara / Associated Press)

Damage to the Malaysian-flagged MT Bunga Kelana 3 is seen after a collision with a bulk carrier in the waters between Malaysia and Singapore. The Bunga Kelana 3 spilled about 18,000 barrels of crude oil off Singapore’s coast after the collision ripped a hole in one of its tanks, authorities said.  (Aziz Hussein / Associated Press)

An aerial view of the flooded area formed in southern Poland along the Vistula River after days of heavy rain. Flooding has traveled north along the river and reached the Pomeranian province on the Baltic coast.  (Piotr Polak / EPA)

Carmen Bachan, mother of hit-and-run victim Adrianna Bachan, 18, makes an emotional statement during the sentencing hearing for Claudia Cabrera and Josue Luna, who received the maximum sentences for the accident that killed Adrianna Bachan and seriously injured Marcus Garfinkle as the USC students crossed Jefferson Boulevard in the early hours of March 29, 2009. A witness saw the car’s passenger pull Garfinkle from the windshield and dump him onto the sidewalk.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

A woman soaks up the sun in St. James’ Park in London. A mini-heat wave over the last few days has seen temperatures in Britain rise above those of European holiday destinations such as Rome and Rhodes.  (Carl Court / AFP / Getty Images)

A participant shows off his agility as he makes his way through swirls of sparks during a traditional fire show in Minsk, Belarus.  (Sergei Grits / Associated Press)

Russia’s Elena Dementieva hits the clay off of her tennis shoe during her first-round match against Croatia’s Petra Martic at the French Open.  (Laurent Baheux / Associated Press)

Floodwaters surround a water-level control point on the plains of the Oder River in Ratzdorf near the Polish-German border. Flooding across Poland has killed 10 people in the last week and has caused more than $3.2 billion in damage.  (Theo Heimann / AFP/Getty Images)

Children of the Alexandra township of Johannesburg celebrate winning a football match in an open field.  (Alexander Joe / AFP / Getty Images)

A South Korean soldier aims his weapon near the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea. South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said Seoul would resume psychological warfare against North Korea, a tactic that had been suspended in 2004 during a period of warming relations.  (Lee Sang-hak / Associated Press)

A farmer massages his horse as dawn breaks on the outskirts of Allahabad, in northern India.  (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press)

A dance takes part in the “Karneval der Kulturen” (Carnival of Cultures) street parade through Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. The annual festival celebrates the German capital’s ethnic and cultural diversity.  (Ronny Hartmann / AFP/Getty Images)

Relatives and mourners attend a funeral for Air India Express crash victims H. Roselin and her two daughters at the St. Alphonsa Catholic Church in Mangalore. The flight overshot the runway, leaving 158 out of 166 passengers and crew dead.
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A cyclist jumps during a performance on Red Square in Moscow.  (Alexey Sazonov / AFP/Getty Images)

Children contort their faces as they play a parlor game in which they need to slide a coin from their foreheads to the mouth in order to win during the annual Feast Day of St. Rita of Cascia in Baclaran, Paranaque, in suburban Manila.  (Noel Celis / AFP/Getty Images)

A participant attends the parade at the Carnival of Cultures in Germany’s capital.  (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)

Actor Javier Bardem, right, and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu embrace during the awards ceremony at the 63rd international Cannes Film Festival in southern France.  (Mark Mainz / Associated Press)

Czech Republic players celebrate after their 2-1 victory over Russia in the championship game of the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships. Russia had won 27 consecutive games in the tournament.  (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

At the Grand Isle State Beach, a laughing gull fishes along a shoreline tainted by oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Washington Nationals first baseman Adam Dunn makes the catch in time to force out the Baltimore Orioles’ Nick Markakis in the fifth inning Saturday. The Nationals won, 7-6.  (Nick Wass / Associated Press)

A dog competes during the fifth annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition in Imperial Beach south of San Diego.  (Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty Images)